Habs sticking to goaltending plan

Colleagues at the Bell Sports Complex report on Twitter this morning that the Canadiens will stick to their goaltending scheme for the preseason, i.e., Carey Price will not be in goal tomorrow when the Ottawa Senators visit the Bell Centre.

Price is skating with Team B in Brossard this morning, leaving some to think that he’d be thrown right back into battle after last night’s lacklustre performance against the Boston Bruins.

Pat Hickey will check in later with details as the Habs prepare for a four-game, four-night stretch.

Anyone know when Price will finally be ready to play in Montreal? Any Price fans know? Is this the year, or is it in five years, when will we see Price win? So what are we supposed to do in the meantime? I know it was one replay and the preseason, but eerily it looked the same as last year, with the team not supporting Price.

Right on man! Agree 100%. I hate the entitled “well I paid for the tickets, I can boo if I want to” mentality. I mean, sure you can do what you want. That’s true in all aspects of life. You can walk around all day being a giant, ignorant douche-bag to everyone you meet. You are entitled to be that way if you wish. But it doesn’t make it right. And make no mistake….booing your team or specific players on your team is a giagantic, idiotic, douche-baggy thing to do.

I think YOU should pick another team. You know what I have every right to do? Call you an inbreed, dim-witted moron who knows jack squat about hockey ot life….but I won’t…cause that would be an ignorant thing to do..just like booing…but I could..I have the right..

What Mike said, this is the same hack media that griped that Koivu’s 4th language French wasn’t that good and that he might be the captain for more years than Beliveau was, like that somehow invalidated Beliveau’s accomplishments.

NHL seems ready to blacklist the bloggers in the new media, Habs should be blacklisting some of the old-school media. Guys who ran the Kostitsyns + Hamrlik = Russian mob? Ban their press credentials for a year.

But look at that jersey your kid is wearing. Ever wonder why that name is on a black and white jersey, instead of being on a blue, white and red one?

I’m sure you did, and you can thank the “fans” for that. Those same “fans” that used to call in radio shows and complain about Koivu all the time. The same people who always complained that our captain couldn’t learn french, and that it was the least he could do for the “fans” after living here for 11 years.

Well, after donating millions of dollars to help sick kids in this city, he left. And he left because he realized that no matter what he did for this town, there’s always 2 negatives attached to it. He gave his 100% every night, but was kicked outta here. Fair treatment?, nope.

You seriously don’t think he would have rather stayed here, and he could have properly filled the role we gave to Halpern?

Unfortunately there are fans that don’t give a damn about Price and look for faults in him win, lose or draw. For idiotic fans to jeer our #1 during the first pre-season game is simply pathetic and not Canadien like. People talk about Price’s mental toughness, I hope he’s as tough as they say because that’s the only way he survives in Montreal.

I’m embarrassed that the Hockey fans here in Wash DC know that booing a 23 year old goalie who has a better or equal to career sv% than Cam Ward, Nabakov, Biron, M.A.Fleury, Osgood, Khabibulin, and Marty Turco and is less than .03% away from goalie’s like Brodeur, Anderson, Miller, and Giguere is pretty STUPID and in Montreal we DO NOT.

In fact they know obviously much better than us that Price’s Career sv% is higher than their own Varlamov, who they think is going to be a GREAT goalie. They know his 9 losses in the playoffs is not the reason they actually lost in the playoffs. They know it’s other things.

Cry me a river. This is the big leagues. How about a rant for the ones who never get a third, fourth, fifth chance at proving themselves? Btw, you’d be surprised what a few back to back solid performances can do to sway the fans, or at the least ease up on the booing.

Once we trade MARTIN, PRICE, POULIOT and GAUTHIER in a 3 way trade for BOUCHER, HALAK, LATENDRESSE and YZERMAN then as you correctly lead with sarcasm to our eventual winning of the STANLEY CUP 6 times in a row to beat our current record.

- Thanks to all who responded to my book I wrote below. I was expecting 100 replies, but I guess I’ll blame my lack of fame on Price.

- Judging by the crazy reactions/analysis following the worst defeat in Habs history last night, I’ll evaluate the rest of last night’s action using that same fram of mind. The Tampa Bay Lightining showed the hockey world last night why they will win the Stanley Cup this year by beating the Chicago Hawks.

- Guy Boucher is now 2-0 in pre-season hockey, and Jacques Martin is 0-1. Do I really have to show more proof of who’s the better coach?

- Roberto Luongo and the Vancouver Canucks lost to last years last place team in the Edmonton Oilers last night. Luongo allowed 2 goals in 30 minutes of action, and the Oilers didn’t even ice a strong team last night. Things aren’t looking good for Vancouver this year. Lottery pick, anyone?

- The Leafs beat the Sens last night, a team that made the playoffs last year. Put 2 and 2 together, and you can figure out for yourself that the Leafs will now definitely make the postseason this year.

- The St-Louis Blues won 5-1 last night against the Wild. Jaroslav Halak wasn’t in goal for the Blues, as he made his debut with the club the night before. In his debut he lost 3-1, giving up all 3 goals in less than 2 periods. Fans in St-Louis are becoming impatient, as some are suggesting there’s a worrisom trend with their team this year. When Halak played on Tuesday night, the Blues only scored 1 goal for him and didn’t play a good game. But last night, when he wasn’t dressed, they scored 5 goals and won the game. Things aren’t looking good for the Blues’ playoff hopes this year. Stay tuned for updates on this ugly trend…

- Guillaume Latendresse, a 27 goal scorer last year with the Wild, was held pointless last night in his season debut with the Wild. Fans are apparently very worried that last year was just a fluke, and one fan went as far as to say they should have kept Pouliot, since Benoit had a couple of scoring chances in his debut last night.

- And finally, the Flyers look like they’re addicted to shootouts. They made the playoffs by winning their final game in one last year, and started off the pre-season by winning in a shootout versus the Devils on Tuesday night. That’s something that is worrying the fans in Philly, because alot are saying the team isn’t mentally mature enough to finish games in regulation.